college seems to be a scam nowadays, why is it so?

Question

you go, you pay thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) and sometimes you cant even find a job. the books are incredibly expensive, as are the classes and fees, etc.....and the education is worthless as you work in a call center or mcdonalds somewhere.

no most of what you7 learn in college (especially soft science) are opinions....its almost an indoctrination camp (college)

Answer 1

1) The point of college is not to find you a job. It's to educate you.

2) Books are expensive anyways - and the smaller the intended audience, the more you end up paying for production.

3) I certainly don't find my education worthless. If you're going to college so you can get a job, get a law, engineering, science, or medical degree. Any other degree, and you're pretty much just going for the education, not for job training.

Answer 2

I always told my daughter to get a job you love (because I hate my accounting job). For most people that means going to college. To me an education will give you the chance to do what you always dreamed of doing. Maybe a teacher, doctor, chemist and so on. My daughter chose Environmental Science. She won't get rich with this degree but she will have a happy and full life. And, yes she has had many opportunities (summer jobs, internships and job offers) but she has chosen to go into the Peace Corp. I can't be prouder of her.

You need to look at education as a means to make your life fuller.

Answer 3

That's not the fault of higher education. That's the fault of our economy.

When we pay tuition, we're not paying for a guaranteed job. We're paying for the education that will make us look more desirable to potential employers. But if those employers can't afford new employees or don't need them, there's not much a university can do about that.

As for books, there are several ways to duck out of those costs. Reserve books at the library, http://www.half.com or http://www.amazon.com , etc.

No matter what my job (although it will never be a call center or McDonalds), I will never consider education worthless.

Answer 4

That's why I go to community college to save money and I still live with my mom to save rent money. I think that if you pick a major that is in demand than you should have to worry much. You should take any opportunity to get an internship when still in college because sometimes you are hired before you graduate.

Take restate for example, I myself personally think that restate isn’t working as well as when it first start. There just so many restate out there now that it’s so easy to get someone to sell your home. There’s sign everywhere as I go to school and go out. Knowing this, I would say that restate isn’t a good major to take and that’s why most people are still at MC or something…

Answer 5

As others point out, college education is not a guarantee for employment. Besides, about 70% of the jobs in the US do NOT require a college diploma (though with so many folks with college degrees, employers have an option to hire those with more education than those with less...but are NOT required to necessarily pay higher wages / salaries.

And, as others point out, our economy drives much of the wage / salary scales based on supply and demand.

Another point to consider is that higher education (beyond mandatory education K-12) has become, like so many other things in our society, a business. I have seen students misguided by college staff to take more courses than necessary to boost enrollment tuition income and inflate statistics in order to reap government funding. I have seen professors frequently change textbooks and publishers making cosmetic changes to get new editions out for professors to use (all of this inflating book costs for students). I have seen professors choosing to teach courses they are comfortable teaching which may or may not be relevant to employment market conditions....so in many cases, certificate and degree programs are NOT preparing students for employment.

Add to this the traditional dichotomy of academic vs vocational education, and the academic side of the house becomes snobbishly disdainful of teaching practical courses and favors the "high brow" intellectual / philosophical and sometimes esoteric classes.

I went through a more academic program (rather than a vocational one), but the funny thing is when I graduated, I had to find a job to pay off the school loans.

But I was lucky / fortunate to strike a balance between the academic and the practical. As another person points out, you get out of the educational experience what you put into it. And in the end, it doesn't matter how full your brain / head is with education. What matters is how much of that education can you put to use. I personally feel it is better to get full use of 1/2 a half-full brain that to get little or no use out of a full one.

If going to college full time is not financially feasible or worthwhile to you....don't do it. Go and get a job that has a good education benefit package. Once working, and proving yourself to be a good worker, most employers would want keep and train you rather than to hire an unknown person that is supposed to be trained...and then finding out they are not capable or competent. However, the world being what it is, there are many examples of companies ignoring qualified people in the company and hiring unsatisfactory outsiders, too.

Three things to remember education:
1) Education comes from 2 Latin words "ex" and "ducere" meaning to lead out....not to pour in. Education leads out from you what you already have inside...gets you to view it in a different way, and that may get you to become empowered to make use of what you know.

2) Education is life-long....it doesn't end once you graduate with a diploma. The world changes, and education is the ability to keep up with and / or adapt to the changes.

3) Education is not confined to classrooms, teachers, and books. If you have a receptive and curious mind, you can learn any time, anywhere, from just about anyone. For most of us, our first teachers were not certified, licensed, degreed teachers....they were common everyday people called parents. And many of us learned best from our own mistakes.

Answer 6

I think you get out of college what you have put in and took out of it. You reap what you sow.

Most people are too lazy to get real world experience while in college, internship, which sets them apart from the thousands of other entry level applicants applying for the same job.

Answer 7

If your real opinion is given in the additional details, then college probably isn't for you.